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A Normal Life
Paperback
Publisher Price: $21.99
Publisher: Petrela Press
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 462
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mia De Luca, an Italian American from a middle-class background in New Jersey suburbia, spends her third college year in a study abroad program in Rome, where she finds everything America suddenly seems to lack: beauty, passion, culture, danger, and the intoxicating promise of reinvention.
Drawn into an intense relationship with the charismatic but emotionally elusive Giovanni, Mia plunges into a world of artists, intellectuals, expatriates, political dreamers, and restless young people trying to create meaning in the shadow of economic collapse and cultural decline. But as the years unfold, romance gives way to harder realities. Careers falter. Loyalties shift. Ideals crack under pressure. And Mia must decide whether the life she imagined for herself was ever truly possible. Set between New York and Rome during the turbulent years surrounding the 2008 financial crisis, A Normal Life is an emotionally charged literary novel about love, identity, ambition, and the search for belonging in an unstable age. Sensual, intelligent, and sharply observed, it combines romance, psychological depth, and social insight in a story that feels both intimate and sweeping.
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